Praying And Contemplating In Late Antiquity

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Praying and Contemplating

Author : Eleni Pachoumi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783161561191
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Praying and Contemplating written by Eleni Pachoumi and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is focused on the interactions and syncretistic tensions between religion and philosophy in Late Antiquity. A variety of papers examine issues of personal religious attitudes, initiation to the mysteries, Orphism, notions of theurgy, magic, the philosopher's quest for intimacy or union with the divine, magic and Christianity, the role of prayer in philosophical texts, and oracles, dream-visions and divination. The contributions include a wide range of specialisations, such as Neoplatonism, Chaldaean Oracles, Theurgy, Patristic literature, Christian religious texts and Manichaeism. Contributors:John Dillon, Eleni Pachoumi, John Finamore, Mark Wildish, Wayne Hankey, John Hilton, Mark Edwards, Bronwen Neil, Annemaré Kotzé, Matthew Dickie, Lech Trzcionkowski, Philip Bosman

Platonic Theories of Prayer

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004309004
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Platonic Theories of Prayer written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Platonic Theories of Prayer is a collection of ten essays on the topic of prayer in the later Platonic tradition. Composed by a panel of distinguished scholars, they offer a comprehensive view of the various roles and levels of prayer characteristic of this period.

Praying and Contemplating in Late Antiquity

Author : Eleni Pachoumi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783161565946
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Praying and Contemplating in Late Antiquity written by Eleni Pachoumi and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception

Author : Melina G. Mouzala
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110744147
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception by : Melina G. Mouzala

Download or read book Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception written by Melina G. Mouzala and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ladder of Prayer and the Ship of Stirrings

Author : Bruria Bitton-Ashkelony
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789042939189
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ladder of Prayer and the Ship of Stirrings by : Bruria Bitton-Ashkelony

Download or read book The Ladder of Prayer and the Ship of Stirrings written by Bruria Bitton-Ashkelony and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doubts about sacrifices, prayers, fate, and providence in the second- to fifth-century Mediterranean world produced new concepts of individual prayer for Christians and non-Christians alike. The Ladder of Prayer and the Ship of Stirrings explores the discourse on the praying self as an ascetic way of life, as an aspect of interiority, and as a path to the divine in Late Antique Eastern Christianity. It deals with the transposition of Greek ascetic literature -- mainly the writings of Evagrius Ponticus, Abba Isaiah, Mark the Monk, and the Apophthegmata patrum -- into East Syrian thought, and its assimilation with indigenous features. Specifically, the book probes the emergence of different sorts of prayer as a pivotal part of the profound religious shifts and cultural developments that unfolded in Late Antique Eastern Christianities. The chronological scope of this study ranges from the second- to fifth-century cultural world of sophists and philosophers, Iamblicus, Porphyry and Proclus, up to the East Syrian mystical authors in the fifth-eighth centuries, among them John of Apamea, Isaac of Nineveh, Dadisho' Qatraya, Shem'on d-Taybutheh, John of Dalyatha, and Joseph Hazzaya. The book presents how these figures incorporated this literary legacy into their teachings and melded it with indigenous Syriac spirituality.

Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims

Author : Eva Anagnostou
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004527850
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims by : Eva Anagnostou

Download or read book Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims written by Eva Anagnostou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume authors working across different disciplines of late antique and medieval thought explore the reception of Platonic and Neoplatonic tenets among Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice

Author : Richard Valantasis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691057516
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice written by Richard Valantasis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-19 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts that constitute a comprehensive view of religious practice in Late Antiquity. This sourcebook includes discussions of asceticism, religious organization, ritual, martyrdom ...

Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004429565
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy provide valuable insights into the central role of philosophical ideas in a period when paganism was in decline and Eastern Christians were forging their community identities.

On the Gods and the World

Author : Vojt?ch Hladk?
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192873245
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book On the Gods and the World written by Vojt?ch Hladk? and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Derveni papyrus is a multi-layered and intricate philosophical and religious treatise written in Greek, probably just before 400 BCE. Since its discovery in 1962, the papyrus has attracted the attention of scholars in several areas of Classical studies, mostly ancient philosophy and religion, but also literary studies. The anonymous author of the text quotes a previously unknown Orphic poem and comments on it using philosophical motifs and concepts borrowed from various Presocratic thinkers but especially Heraclitus and the Anaxagoreans. The book presents a new interpretation of various aspects of this complex text: situating the treatise within the tradition of allegorical interpretation; providing an interpretation of the opening columns, which describe a peculiar ritual and contain some Heraclitean material, including, as the study argues, some previously unknown fragments; reconstructing the contents of the Orphic poem upon which the Derveni author comments; examining various allegorical devices employed by the Derveni author in his explanation of the Orphic poem, following his commentary in detail; and finally, discussing the likely intellectual background in which the Derveni treatise originated. In general, the study argues that rather than being the work of a philosophising Orphic initiate, the Derveni treatise is a philosophical text whose aim was to explain a nonstandard religious poem. The commentary explains the Orphic poem from a perspective influenced by discussions among the followers of philosophy of Anaxagoras and Heraclitus, and employs reflections on the use and function of language found in the writings of some contemporary thinkers. Based on an analysis of sources upon which the Derveni papyrus is based, it is concluded that its author was probably active in Athens in late fifth century BCE and may have been a person close to Socrates' teacher Archelaus.

Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity

Author : Paul C. Dilley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316878589
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity written by Paul C. Dilley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity, Paul C. Dilley explores the personal practices and group rituals through which the thoughts of monastic disciples were monitored and trained to purify the mind and help them achieve salvation. Dilley draws widely on the interdisciplinary field of cognitive studies, especially anthropology, in his analysis of key monastic 'cognitive disciplines', such as meditation on scripture, the fear of God, and prayer. In addition, various rituals distinctive to communal monasticism, including entrance procedures, the commemoration of founders, and collective repentance, are given their first extended analysis. Participants engaged in 'heart-work' on their thoughts and emotions, which were understood to reflect the community's spiritual state. This book will be of interest to scholars of early Christianity and the ancient world more generally for its detailed description of communal monastic culture and its innovative methodology.

Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt

Author : Bronwen Neil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108481183
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt written by Bronwen Neil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the significance of dreams in early Christian Egypt, using sources from Philo and Origen to Athanasius and early monks.

Gregory of Nyssa: Homilies on the Our Father. An English Translation with Commentary and Supporting Studies

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004463011
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Gregory of Nyssa: Homilies on the Our Father. An English Translation with Commentary and Supporting Studies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Our Father, edited by Matthieu Cassin, Hélène Grelier-Deneux and Françoise Vinel, offers an English translation, the edition of a 15th century Latin translation and twenty-seven studies on this major text of the 4th century.

Trois théories antiques de la divination: Plutarque, Jamblique, Augustin

Author : Andrei Timotin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004507361
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Trois théories antiques de la divination: Plutarque, Jamblique, Augustin written by Andrei Timotin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines three authors – Plutarch, Iamblichus and Augustine – who deeply impacted the ancient philosophical debates about divination, and highlights the complex relationship between philosophy and religion in Antiquity. Ce livre examine trois auteurs - Plutarque, Jamblique et Augustin - qui ont marqué les débats philosophiques antiques sur la divination et met en évidence la complexité des rapports entre philosophie et religion dans l’Antiquité.

Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium

Author : Bronwen Neil
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004375716
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium written by Bronwen Neil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies on Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium reveals the distinctive and important roles of memory, imagination and dreams in the Byzantine court, the proto-Orthodox church and broader society from Constantinople to Syria and beyond

Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy

Author : LaZella Andrew LaZella
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474450830
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy by : LaZella Andrew LaZella

Download or read book Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy written by LaZella Andrew LaZella and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of leading international scholars, this crucial period of philosophy is examined from the novel perspective of themes and lines of thought which cut across authors, disciplines and national boundaries. This fresh approach will open up new ways for specialists and students to conceptualise the history of medieval and Renaissance thought within philosophy, politics, religious studies and literature. The essays cover concepts and topics that have become central in the continental tradition. They also bring major philosophers - Thomas Aquinas, Averroes, Maimonides and Duns Scotus - into conversation with those not usually considered canonical - Nicholas of Cusa, Marsilius of Padua, Gersonides and Moses Almosnino. Medieval and Renaissance thought is approached with contemporary continental philosophy in view, highlighting the continued richness and relevance of the work from this period.

Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks

Author : Eleni Pachoumi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004697551
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks written by Eleni Pachoumi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation and commentary of Proclus’ On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks. The Hieratic Art is the Theurgic Art, theurgy, the theurgic union with the divine. Proclus describes the theurgic union, putting an emphasis on a conceptual blending of ritual actions (teletai, e.g. the role of statues, incenses, synthêmata, symbols, purifications, invocations and epiphanies) and philosophical concepts (e.g. union of many powers, ‘one and many’, symphathy, natural sympathies, attraction, mixing and division).

Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE

Author : Bronwen Neil
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198871147
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE written by Bronwen Neil and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did dreams matter to Jews, Byzantine Christians, and Muslims in the first millennium? Bronwen Neil shows how the three faiths took the pagan practice of divining the future from dreams and melded it with their own scriptural traditions to produce a novel and rich culture of dream interpretation.